The Great Pumpkin - Audio Biography

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.If you thought you’d made it to October without hearing about The Great Pumpkin—and you also thought I, Marcus Ellery, would let that stand—you’re both wrong and very optimistic. So buckle in, it’s time for another “Biography Flash,” diving deep (maybe deeper than the actual pumpkin patch) into recent legend and lunacy around everyone's favorite fictional gourd.First, because it’s in the air—literally, as Target sets out Halloween decor before

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.Okay folks, it’s Marcus Ellery here, and today, we’re flashing the big Christmas lights on one of fiction’s weirdest, most lovable nonentities: The Great Pumpkin. Yes, it’s time for another “Great Pumpkin Biography Flash”—the only podcast episode guaranteed to have fewer sources than an actual Pumpkin sighting.First off: as of Sunday, September 28, 2025, The Great Pumpkin is very much still fictional. He’s still hanging out exclusively in the mind

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.So, big scoop, folks: the Great Pumpkin is trending again. Yes, that Great Pumpkin—the mythical leafy giant who’s been ghosting Linus van Pelt for nearly sixty years, still racking up more no-shows than my gym buddy in January. As of this week, there’s not a single photo of the Great Pumpkin at the Emmys or even caught leaving a Soho pumpkin patch, but on social media, he’s making more waves than a pumpkin spice latte spill on white jeans.Here’s

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.You know, I wake up every morning hoping for clarity and instead get Twitter trending topics debating whether The Great Pumpkin supports labor unions. Yes, folks, let’s talk about The Great Pumpkin, that elusive Peanuts legend, that pumpkin-shaped Loch Ness Monster who refuses to trend except once a year and even then, most people think it’s just their neighbor putting a gourd on their porch and calling it performance art.So, biographically, The

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.This is Marcus Ellery and, if you’re tuning in for an update on the Great Pumpkin, strap in, because the world’s favorite enigmatic squash spirit has been living rent-free not just in Linus’s pumpkin patch, but apparently this week in every nostalgia-fueled pop culture event in America. So, here’s what you missed if you were busy actually having a social life. As the Peanuts universe marks its 75th anniversary—a sentence that made me check for

The Great Pumpkin Biography Flash a weekly Biography.Yes, folks, it’s me, Marc Ellery—back in the studio and somehow still surprised to find myself talking about The Great Pumpkin, the only uprooted squash to be both a cult leader and an annual no-show since 1966. Now, look, if you’re hoping for a paparazzi photo of The Great Pumpkin stepping out of a limo with Taylor Swift, I’m gonna have to disappoint you. The Great Pumpkin remains fictional, unphotographed, and remarkably unverified on Instagram

In the pantheon of holiday icons, few figures are as elusive, misunderstood, and persistently believed in as The Great Pumpkin. This rotund, orange deity of the pumpkin patch has captured the imagination of children (well, mainly one child) for decades, proving that with enough belief, even a vegetable can become a legend. This is the story of a pumpkin that dared to dream beyond the confines of its vine and, in doing so, became the most famous no-show in holiday history. Born in a humble pumpkin